Lau

Laura just turned 30. But how can she be an adult after losing her mother as a child and being left by her first love? In an existential crisis, Laura lets her best friend and a few too many drinks convince her to make an appointment with Jocelyne, a clairvoyant and medium, in the hopes of solving her problems of the heart and finding answers to all the questions dogging her at this turning point of her life.
 
In this touching, luminous monologue directed by Frédéric Blanchette, Lau, alias Laura, takes us into the whirlwind of her thoughts and the detours of her memory.
 
Diving into the intimate world of a young woman for whom self-deprecating humour is a shield against suffering, Lau explores grief, becoming an adult, and delicate mother-daughter relations. “I didn’t want to seem weak in her eyes. I would cry only in the water. As soon as I lifted my head out, I was smiling.” Will Laura make peace with her past and heal, so she can finally start breathing again? In this short piece of autofiction by Marie-Pier Audet, written in collaboration with Katherine IS and presented in the early evening as a 5 à 7 performance, the audience is invited to join Laura as she pieces her life back together, with sensitivity and some laughs.